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Americans have always been serious about teeth. In a 1917 article from the American Journal of Nursing, J. W. Beach called the “family toothbrush” one of the “bulwarks of present-day civilization.”
There’s less than a minute to go in the fourth quarter and your football team is trailing by six points. Their only shot at a win is to keep possession of the ball for the remaining seconds. The coach calls for an onside kick. The play itself is simple:
When you’re the research director for Harris Interactive, one of the country’s most successful public polling firms, you learn some unusual things about people.
Most of the women who attend games at Turner Field in Atlanta wash their hands after using the restroom. Just1 in 20 neglect to lather and rinse. Male baseball fans, by contrast, are about nine times less hygienic.
On August 14, 2009, the Baltimore Orioles’ Felix Pie hit for the cycle (a baseball term for the single-game feat of hitting a single, a double, a triple and a home run regardless of the order).
The presidencies of Barack Obama and George W. Bush are as different morning and night. President George W. Bush, who famously liked to retire shortly after 9 pm, started his last day in office the way he started most of the preceding days— at his desk before 7 am. President Obama brings late nights and long hours to the White House. The apparent night owl holds conferences with senior staff through 11 p.m. and urges employees to return to work after dinner.
The average adult goes to bed at 10:53 p.m. on a work night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. So what does the average adult do in the hour right before bedtime?
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